Insect or Invertebrates Identification

[ExFmem]

These were all taken in Kruger, but on 4 different dates, so I’m assuming different individuals.

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[Klipspringer]

These were all taken in Kruger, but on 4 different dates, so I’m assuming different individuals.

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http://www.waterberg-bioquest.co.za/spi ... pidae.html

Do you think any of these is similar?

[ExFmem]

Re: Kruger spiders ID -

None match "perfectly", and I don't know how much variation there is between individuals. I got as far as Oxyopes (pretty easy), but no idea of the species - O. hoggi and O. dumonti are closest.

[Klipspringer]

Re: Kruger spiders ID -

None match "perfectly", and I don't know how much variation there is between individuals. I got as far as Oxyopes (pretty easy), but no idea of the species - O. hoggi and O. dumonti are closest.

Impossible to ID for me, too and males and females are very different.

I noticed however that they are dark around the eye-field which your spiders aren't. Juveniles perhaps?

[Richprins]

Large solitary ant, 1.5 cm, Nelspruit:

[Klipspringer]

I agree, it is an ant

Probably smaller than 15 mm


What next?

Genus?
Queen, male, (major, medium, minor) worker?


Solitary ants may be only solitary when foraging

[Richprins]

White-backside genus!

Worker!

[Klipspringer]

Worker which one?

For genus - look at the head shape

[Richprins]

[Klipspringer]

The most obvious difference between the two or more worker subcastes is in the shape of the head, which is small, narrow and ovate in minors, but greatly enlarged, heart-shaped in majors!

Follow-up question: Why is this the case?